Sebastián Sclofsky

Sebastián Sclofsky is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice at California State University, Stanislaus. He was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay. His research interests are on policing, police violence, its effects on nonwhite residents of low-income communities both in the U.S. and Brazil, as well as Latin American politics. You can follow him on Tweeter @sebasclofsky.

Sebastián Sclofsky : Before we continue to use these great athletes and their achievements as tokens of America’s diversity and possibilities, we will do good to remember that they are not the product of the American Dream, but rather the exception to the American Nightmare.

Sebastián Sclofsky: The danger of concentrating all our efforts on police reform is that it reinforces a way of thinking which posits that the solutions to the problems affecting low-income brown and black communities is one of law and order.

The Middle East

David A. Love: Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs works with front groups such as the Israel Project and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) to spy on US citizens who support Palestinian rights and smear them as anti-Semites, in a covert campaign that smacks of McCarthyism and Islamophobia.